This irresistible tale, the first of a planned tetralogy, full of blood, blunder and myth, follows the fate of an upper-crust British family that attempts to explore the Western frontier (circa 1830) with a huge traveling ménage.

It is an irresistible dark tale of murder, incest and class struggle, an event so bizarre that a novelist might hesitate to invent it.

He turned up irresistible back-street tales ("They Still Chute Coal, Don't They?")

Not until "The Full Monty," the irresistible tale of unemployed steelworkers in Sheffield, England, who contrive a bold moneymaking scheme.

Flea Theater, five more performances through Aug. 26 41 White Street, near Broadway, TriBeCa In the irresistible cautionary tale "Bridezilla Strikes Back!"

Two irresistible tales about Americans abroad in pressurized environments that both speed and aggravate the purgation of their inner problems.

However, Randall Short said here last year, this book is more than telephone titillation: the author "has produced a compelling and irresistible tale, a tour de force illustration of the fantasy inherent in eroticism."

Here, then, is the always irresistible tale of the poor boy making good.

Two irresistible tales of Americans in Europe.